White Paper: Navigating the Cloud in Healthcare

In the U.S., healthcare information technology (HIT) is currently a disparate and inefficient landscape of isolated applications, information, and healthcare providers. To resolve this issue, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) introduced $48.8 billion to connect healthcare infrastructures and applications as well as encourage the adoption of health information technology. In fact, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the ARRA will drive 85% of physicians and 55% of hospitals to adopt HIT in the next five years and significantly reduce costs through shared patient information. However, this act also burdened many healthcare providers with the daunting and costly endeavor of selecting HIT applications that not only meet their needs and deliver a positive return on investment, but also qualify them for the incentives promised by various government and health organizations.

This white paper focuses on a solution being adapted by many healthcare application providers to address the ARRA issues today. Covisint’s AppCloud solution offers healthcare providers a modular, incremental, and cost-efficient mechanism to access applications and patient information necessary for effective healthcare, as well as connects to community, state, and national health information exchanges. AppCloud delivers application providers a simple, scalable, and secure architecture that allows them to showcase the benefits of their applications to large networks of adoption-ready consumers. These benefits are provided through AppCloud’s two essential components, a portal framework and the storefront. Read more about the AppCloud solution and navigating the cloud in healthcare, by clicking on the link below.

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